1896–1918Petrovaradin
The Giant Elevator (Orias-elevator) dredging the Danube near Petrovaradin
A large crane mounted dredger, its boom lifting a bucket high above deckhands and ladders, works the Danube beside the railway bridge near Petrovaradin. Two men stand on the riverbank in the foreground. The Hungarian-only Ujvidek and Petrovaradin caption, with no Cyrillic, is consistent with the Austro-Hungarian era, and the photographer's credit names Antal Fleischmann.
About this place
The town on the right bank of the Danube facing Novi Sad, gathered around its great fortress. A Roman fortress called Cusum stood here in the 1st century, and the medieval town is first recorded as Peturwarod (Pétervárad) in 1237. The Ottomans took it after a two-week siege in 1526, and it passed definitively to the Habsburgs in the 1690s, becoming the garrison town of Peterwardein; Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated the Ottoman army beneath its walls in 1716. The Baroque lower town (Podgrađe) still stands under the fortress walls. Long administered separately from Novi Sad, Petrovaradin lost its last separate municipal status when the city statute of March 2019 merged it fully into the City of Novi Sad.
On the card
Üdvözlet az Óriás-elevátorról. Újvidék; Pétervárad vár
- Date
- 1896–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- National Széchényi Library - postcards
- Credit
- National Széchényi Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2111 × 1370 px
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